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This is awesome. Like this very much!

this is a reflection of marvels broken identity. they are slowly pushing me out of the marvel universe. its all just so bland and corporate anymore.

“What might be Marvel’s best event yet”

Name a single Bendis-written story, from anything he’s written, that had a good ending.

“Name a single Bendis-written story, from anything he’s written, that had a good ending.”

Daredevil. But yes, he is not good with events.

“small and personal tragedy that is sure to surprise new readers and longtime fans alike,”

It was pretty much what I was expecting, since they announced someone was going to die and that was the most logical choice. I’m still sad about it. I was hoping I was wrong.

I thought it was a good start, except for Tony’s point of view, which I’m not buying at all. He jumps directly to Minority Report fears, despite nobody ever suggesting that they arrest people for crimes they haven’t committed. What would he have done if the Guardians of the Galaxy had sent him a message warning him that Thanos was going to show up at a specific place at a specific time? Just not go? How is that any different from learning about it from a prophecy?

Nobody likes the Inhumans. Give up, Marvel.

‘Do you really care about a book that’s been gone for several months?’

nope

my money is thin, i will not bother with a book that can’t stay on schedule. i used to say ‘oh, i will get it when its complete’ but to be totally honest, there’s enough going on that i rarely ever do anymore

Of course I’m getting this

Sadly, when a Marvel title is late and/or doesn’t ship in a particular month, readers generally have no idea if the title’s even coming back. For the last several years, Marvel’s policy has been not to inform readers of a cancellation, but rather to let the title die with no notice. A title misses a couple months, we don’t know it’s status. That makes it hard to get emotionally and financially invested in a title.

All a ploy to launch All New The Eternals and build a film franchise, no doubt.

The only thing Crystal had going for her was the hairstyle you take that away and it leaves nothing. But that can be said of all but 3 or 4 of the Inhumans so that just moves her back into the crowd, i guess.

I was just thinking about how we were facing a severe shortage of both Inhumans and Charles Soule books.

Why do the Inhumans need masks if they are the public rulers of their own people and dont have secret identities? Sort of dumb really…..

Why do Inhumans look so human? Groot was an anthromorph but at least he looked otherworldly.

The real question is can Marvel bring some humor to the Inhumans? The Thor movies were able to have some fun with what could have been a stuffy faux-Shakesperean world, but I’m not so sure about the Inhumans…

At Kilroy, Five of Seven pictured have no mask covering thier features. Something has to hold Black Bolt’s tuning fork on his forhead and something needs to keep Medusa’s hair out of her face. Seems pretty clear to me. LOL! Oh and they are comic book characters. The are part part human not alien. I noticed you didn’t point out the humaness of all the other aliens in GotG. Quill is really the only human in the movie though I think at one point Drax was human. Why is Silver Surfer humanoid? Why is almost any sentient alien species portrayed as humnoid? Why is Jesus Chris portrayed as a white man?

“The Inhumans are the IT team for Marvel in 2015!”

I can see it. Black Bolt – CIO, Lockjaw – Help Desk Technician …

REGARDING MEDUSA’S MASK, wasn’t she first introduced as a villainess in early FF? I believe she was teamed up with a group of super villains (Paste Pot Pete and others?) to battle the FF.

That’s not Lockjaw. Horrible rendition.

aslong as marvel does it right this should be a cool movie..gotg was good but were NOT the guardians of the galaxy I remember.. vance astro, yondu, martinex, Charlie-27, starhawk, nikki, …they ARE the gotg….and yes that’s not how lockjaw looks

ohyeah and karnak and triton…cant wait for the movie!!

Lonnie – Yes, she was part of the Frightful Four.

The Inhuman book has been very good. Ms Marvel has been GREAT. If this is the Inhumans, bring them on.

@kilroy – many of the new inhumans, the nuhumans as Medusa is calling them, look decidedly un-human. They ARE humans that were fiddled with by the Kree, so it stands to reason they’d still keep many features. Also, one of the inhumans is a door that sends you where you need to be; that’s decidedly out of the ‘norm’.

@thinkaboutitdude Why is almost any sentient alien species portrayed as humnoid?

So the reader/viewer can relate. Simple as that, really. It’s not some underhanded thing designed to subjugate all the non-humanoid alien species out there.

All very fun. I’d be interested in finding out how certain actors deals work here: is Avengers 3 contractually considered one movie or two?

I’d love to see a Black Widow film but maybe Johansson’s schedule plays a part in that. Seems odd they don’t plan on making one.

And no love for Ant Man 2, I guess.

i’m glad they didnt do a black widow movie. i know there was clamoring, but she’s never been a big character and she’s a character which is more interesting the less she’s explained. glad theyre sticking with their plan.

Is Captain Marvel Carol or Mar-Vell?

“Is Captain Marvel Carol or Mar-Vell?”

Since DeConnick and Soy are credited as the creators, I’m going with Carol.

Saw this on CBR last month…
http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2014/09/08/jessica-chastain-wants-her-own-superhero-movie/
…Someone sign her up for this.

There were rumors over the summer that Katee Sackhoff will appear in Age of Ultron as Captain Marvel.

http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2014/08/14/katee-sackhoff-downplays-marvel-superhero-rumors/

“As of this moment, I have not sat down with anybody from Marvel for any role specifically. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that something with Marvel is completely off the table for the future.” And she did announce on Twitter this past summer that she met with Stan Lee.

People say that wonder women

People say that they are going to make wonder women in 2020

Kind of new….

http://multiversitycomics.com/columns/crossed-out-crossovers-atlantis-rising/

Marvel seems to be spacing their crossovers out by 3-6 month increments now instead of yearly. Can’t blame them I guess since the current crossover book, whatever its title happens to be, is generally their best selling comic in that month.

As for inhumans replacing mutants in the effective canon…I guess we’ll have to wait and see the origins of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in Avengers 2.

Marvel, stop trying to make Inhumans happen.

How is Monet broken? She has some personal issues like every other Marvel character, but nothing that says “broken.” She died, she came back. Again, just like everyone else.

Well she doesn’t have a soul or the capacity to feel emotion and she tried a long-term relationship with STRONG GUY of all people…

‘Wolverine: Origins II’?!?

What new ground do they have to cover in Logan’s life that hasn’t been milked to death already? Yawn…

‘Scarlet Spider’ ending?? Come on! That’s one of my favorite comicbooks! Kaine is an awesome character and could be usefull in the Marvel Universe. There are a lot of possibilities for him, and the work of Yost and his team has been great.
Ok, I know I’m beeing all fanboy with this, but I still think this comic is worth to keep.

Just because a character does weird things doesn’t mean they’re broken. PAD has done wonders with Monet. And most of the time, he gives characters tics that don’t pay off for 20 or 30 issues. Obviously, this can be both good and bad.

I suspect the Amazing Spider-Man 700.whatever issues are a way to burn off old inventory stories. There’s no way Peter Parker is coming back without Dan Slott writing that return.

Glad to see Indestructible Hulk’s annual will be written by Mark Waid.

Wow, so the long self-insertion fic is finally over and we can get back to stories about Spider-Man?

I really don’t get how Marvel uses their big artists. They have McNiven draw the first couple of issues of Guardians and then insert him into the middle of the run on Uncanny? Coipel is supposed to be the main artist on Brian Wood’s X-Men, but is doing some random Inhumans thing with Fraction?

@Luis Santander: Mine too, but unfortunately not many people bought it.

I’m also sad that Peter Parker is back as Spider-Man. I rather enjoyed Doc Ock in the role. Not necessarily the way Dan Slott wrote him, but the way all the other writers wrote him when he showed up (like in this weeks Mighty Avengers).

I’m still on the fence with the whole Inhumans thing. Seems a lot like X-Men 2.0: “We won’t get the movie rights back from Fox, so we simply recreate them”.

“I suspect the Amazing Spider-Man 700.whatever issues are a way to burn off old inventory stories. There’s no way Peter Parker is coming back without Dan Slott writing that return.”

Given the creators, it seems to be a five-part mini-series that was announced a while back that they decided to just roll into the main title – at the time they said it was set in the past and wasn’t the return of Peter Parker.

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RE: x23 costume
Marvel continuing their return to Victorian values. Heaven forbid a woman should show more than an ankle!

Ankles are hott.

“Branding” is definitely a loose concept here. Wow. “Let’s put a red tilted box in the corner and a giant number! Branding design done!” Man, whatever happened to actually putting some design skills into comics. Even the logos are boring flat book cover fonts now.

I wish I wasn’t so excited about an All-New Invaders, but damn do I love Namor and the Invaders (So much I’d call “Namor and The All-New Invaders”!!!!”) .

But what’s this? The article states “and Original Human Torch Toro”…well which is it? The original Human Torch, or Toro (who wasn’t the original Human Torch, but the original Toro)…?

Looking forward to seeing what the new titles are, but I dunno if it makes sense to do a modern-day Invaders. Everyone on the cover has been an Avenger, all quite recently, and setting it in the modern-day doesn’t give it much of a unique hook. WW2 or something would be a better selling point, methinks.

Yeah, what the h e l l??? Why dont they just put Wolverine on every cover like they did in the 80′s… “Hey speculator market, we got a cover that says -first issue!-, aren’t we lame…!!!”
Alonso, said that “Marvel Now!” was supposed to bring back NuMarvel, in ways that delivered cutting edge new art, like in how the covers were designed in “non-conventional” ways. How can you expect people to take the *sequential* medium seriously, when the only main access to *sequential* are these lame “comic books”. The super hero genre is great, but the “American” version of super hero’s is this twisted culmination of homo-erotic power fantasy fulfillment encased in christian/conservative-extremist regulations (Comics Code Authority), which have been further perverted with stories written to comply with the speculator’s bubble from mid-80′s to early 90′s, and then all chewed up and spat out during the 90′s hell that was the aftershock of the speculators bubble bursting (example: stories created under a bankrupt management like at Marvel Comics ; also please see on youtube.com Max Landis’ “the death and return of superman”). If Marvel stock was no under 10 dollars /share like it was, then there probably would not had been room for the window of time that was just before the stories written to comply with the Disney buy-out -NuMarel was when heads were rolling, people were being replaced, and new independent, more ‘fringe’ creators were hired to take over mass market character-based assets. Now, there is no slew of indi-talent hired to take on the mass market titles -NuMarvel was when Marvel was owned by Marvel. When they were just gaining momentum to create their own Marvel Studios movies, and the comics being printed were freaking awesome! Alias, Daredevil, “e is for Extinction” X-men story, Ultimate Spider-Man and especially the Ultimates stories, Peter Bagge even did a Spider-man one-shot -as well as James Sturm did *Unstable Molecules*!!! Marvel needs to start pushing the boundaries of *sequential* with some new talent, and in new mediums like the larger Magazine format, because print sequential will always be around, but “American comic books” (especially the cheese American version of the super hero if American sequential does not fix up their act), may not.

I was reading the new “Marvel Now”,
But my LCS had no copies to show.
The “old Now” was old news
And the “new Now” issues
Were too new a New Now for review.

(Apologies to Ogden Nash.)

Wouldn’t that make good *journalism*, instead of the flog of a site promotions going on, to include in this article a quote from someone at Marvel that can explain why Alonso said how “Marvel Now!” was supposed to bring back NuMarvel, and yet now Marvel is rejecting NuMarvel, -and how Marvel is N O T progressing the *sequential* medium, as they keep pushing their consumer-market driven “comic books”.

@Marvel : hey, if you guys can crawl yourselves out of not only bankruptcy, but also in doing so you were able to have some killer NuMarvel stories, then why dont you run with that cutting edge shtikt that you had 2000 – 2004??? Why just cater to the Disney buy-out and then ‘rest on your laurels…’??? If corporations can have all of these hundreds of millions of consumers walk around actually thinking they are ‘Americans’, then why can you progress *sequential* in the USA, instead of milking off the consumer mentality of printing only “comic books”???? You can still have brainwashed cubicle gimps that OK with calling themselves “consumers”, and still have better more creative forms of super heroes in *sequential* -or can we??? What? Is that going to cause people to start thinking they are human beings/Americans/members of a community, and stop living as consumers when not at work, as they also ignore they are economic units that comprise a ‘person’ while at work??? Why do we only get these twisted icons that are culminations of christian/conservative-extremist crap (Comics Code Authority) and the speculator’s bubble, and bankrupt management, and compliance to multinational corporate buy-outs (Time/Warner and now Disney)???? Maybe create a different “universe” that is all about *sequential* super heroes, and not “comic book” super heroe -P L E A S E??? Maybe some of these “consumers” will get off their corporate slave a$$es and just do it themselves, instead of waiting for something that puts profit over quality (a multinational corporation) to progress *sequential*…

Is it just me? I seem to be missing an “S.”

Is this new series “Inhuman” or “Inhumans” because well, the team composition is making more sense if it’s the first one.

Silly but True

We need one Marvel universe that prints books as “comic books”, for consumers – these can have their typical “First Issue!” lame designs with books created as a “market share” to promote the mass consumption of plastic in the form of merchandise, as well as promoting data mining in tracking what one does after logging in with an online account to read comics. This brand of Marvel stories are the typical predictable crap written w/out any innovation or creative substance -instead of as *sequential*.

Then create a second Marvel universe that can be books published as actual *sequential* stories containing super heroes created by actual artists and writers who prefer to progress and have fun with the *sequential* form of art -more like NuMarvel, instead of the consumer driven predictable unimaginative “comic books” that have people turn their heads away from super heroes as something lame. This *sequential* form of super hero stories can be in a printed magazine format or other sized formats that can be used to break the boundaries of what Americans consider should be “comics books” and create and awareness for *sequential* stories. Unfortunately Americans are such consumer slaves they will not be able to accept something unless they see some movies star or celebrity use it first, something on TV or the Internet to let them know that it is OK to use; to go drive to… -will never happen… who am I kidding… Big Red box “First Issue!!!” that is best Marvel can do after FIFTY ***50*** YEARS… “If it is not broken, then dont fix it”, right? But then how can you not call spending decades in traffic, fast food, strip malls, homes made to be flipped instead of lived in, more traffic, no rights in the workplace, rising price of gas while the purchasing power of the dollar diminishes ever year from now on, as products are made to break down fast and take our money (instead of made to work and last) and labor is out-sourced while no one that calls themselves an ‘American’ knows what all the amendments are, or how a bill gets passed, or what gerrymandering is, or which congressional district they belong to, or what the suffrage movement really was -how can you call all of that which makes up every moment of every American’s day “not broken”??? Designing sequential as the consumer “comic books” is a pretty stupid thing to do considering we now live in an environment where getting by in life is not enabled, getting by in life is not something everyone can do anymore -our disillusioned consumer lifestyle is a joke, so why still published “comic books” when consumers are a dying breed??? Why not write super hero stories not for consumers, but instead for *human beings*, for *Americans*, for *members of families* ????

Can I borrow someone’s Cliff Notes for the comments section?

Aaron Browne – are you all right?

Matthew Jeske – are you all right?

I do not know what is happening in these comments o______O

Anyway. As someone who used Marvel Now to try out a bunch of new comics that I’m now in love with, I’ll definitely be giving these a try! I’ve been a bit wary of trying Avengers as there are just so many titles to choose from (similar with X-Men but I’ve found a couple I like) so these looks ace.

Ok. (I’m slow…) I just put it all together that Avengers is being given a great big new #1, but just in case you are tired of those it’s also being given a little tiny #24.NOW. So in Marvel Now land (which is a year old and apparently NOW boring) it’s still issue #24, but in All New Marvel Now land (which is shiny and awesome!) it’s being given a new #1! Wow, my head is spinning…

I’m with Mathew. What’s up with Aaron Brown??

@Eric K – What’s up with you?? Nice job being the typical ‘American’ and going strait for the negative attack -you gotta cut people down, not like you know of any other way to be… ‘Way to go, consumer. What a bummer.